Dr. Berwick and That Fabulous Cuban Health Care

The death march of progressive medicine.

By

Bret Stephens

Updated July 13, 2010 12:01 a.m. ET

Heaven forbid that anyone accuse Donald Berwick—lately of Harvard, newly of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, with $800 billion under management—of being an admirer of Cuba's health-care system. In the matter of CastroCare, progressives of Dr. Berwick's stripe are rarely at a loss for superlatives. But suggest that ObamaCare is a step in the Cuban direction, and these same people will accuse you of rank scare-mongering.